»The Snail-Watcher and other stories

I was delighted to find a copy of this anthology of Patricia Highsmith's short stories, collecting stories on a theme from 1945 to 1970. I have been looking for one of these, "The Quest for 'Blank Claveringi'", for some time, since reading it in another anthology (along what theme, I cannot recall; it may have been a science-fiction or horror book or magazine) when I was quite young. The story made a huge impression on me, for the economy of its language (although in re-reading it this morning, I needed to consult a dictionary for nacreous and crepitation) and for the inventiveness of its plot.
Most of these stories do not appear in either of the two recent paperback anthologies.

salim filed this under books at 09h02 Thursday, 11 January 2007 (link) (Yr two bits?)